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Advocate for sun safety and provide information on travel vaccines.
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Update your knowledge to help prevent and manage summer skin problems
23 Feb 2026
Advice for handling patient requests for post-exposure rabies vaccines.
19 Jun 2025
Training Matters explores how pharmacy teams can help customers to have stress-free holidays and feel confident taking on travel health concerns.
06 Jun 2025
This module is to increase knowledge of supporting customers with tick bites. Insect bites, including those from ticks, are a common ailment presented to community pharmacy and climate change is causing an increase in tick-related illnesses. Some of these illnesses can be serious and patients may not always realise they have been bitten by a tick. This module aims to support you with identifying tick bites in patients and how to support them. It will also cover measures to prevent tick bites.
24 Mar 2025
This training module covers information and advice you can give your customers before, during, and after overseas travel.
04 Mar 2025
Whether customers are holidaying at home or abroad, pharmacy teams are on standby to give self care advice and OTC knowledge to help manage a whole range of summer ailments.
19 Jun 2024
It’s not just travellers who are on the move. The changing patterns of infectious disease in Europe and beyond underline the importance of the public seeking up-to-date and reliable pre-departure health advice from pharmacies.
04 Jun 2024
As the sun returns to the skies and school holidays approach, many customers will be making time to travel, whether that be abroad or within the UK. There are plenty of self care and OTC tips you can share with customers, no matter their destination.
19 May 2024
This module will provide you with information about pre, during and post travel health along with how you can provide advice to your patients.
02 Apr 2024
Now summer holidays are well and truly back on the agenda, here's the advice pharmacy teams can offer to keep travellers healthy
14 Jun 2023
Travel health can be an important focus area for pharmacy as exemplified by the number of successful pharmacist-run clinics currently in operation across the UK. Jackie Lewis, pharmacist director at Lewis Pharmacy in Exmouth, provides some useful insights into setting up and operating a travel health service in the local community.
17 May 2023
New guidance from the British Association of Dermatologists urges people to use sun protection for six months of the year. Skin cancer in the UK is at record levels – one in five will get it during their lifetime.
For many people, this summer will be the first time in three years that they have been able to travel abroad. Here's how pharmacy teams can help remind customers about staying safe under the sun.
23 Jun 2022
There's an important role to play in helping customers plan for all kinds of eventualities and stay healthy when holidaying at home.
14 Jun 2021
This module helps provide understanding on common types of skin cancer and actinic keratoses.
12 Jun 2020
